CVE-2016-10148

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-10148
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-10148.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-10148
Downstream
Published
2017-01-18T21:59:00.247Z
Modified
2026-04-11T19:42:46.492845Z
Severity
  • 4.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The wpajaxupdateplugin function in wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php in WordPress before 4.6 makes a getplugindata call before checking the updateplugins capability, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended read-access restrictions via the plugin parameter to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php, a related issue to CVE-2016-6896.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/wordpress/wordpress

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/wordpress/wordpress
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
f33932899302ef01910a9785cb65998ecd8a552f
Database specific 
{
    "source": "CPE_FIELD",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.5.5"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

4.*
4.5.5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-10148.json"